![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, a unanimous United States Supreme Court issues its decision in Guinn v United States finding that the ‘grandfather clause’ in Oklahoma’s voting eligibility law blatantly violates the letter and spirit of the Fifteenth Amendment. Whereas the trenches and primitive automatic fire of 1871 still haunted France in 1914, affecting her Army’s doctrine and performance even a year later, in 1917 the American nation will send an Army to war seeking extirpation of national ghosts that were created by the trenches and primitive automatic fire of Grant’s final campaign on Virginia in 1865. 21 June 1915 – Grandfather Clauseįar from the battlefields of a world at war, America is a nation cleft by unresolved social divisions remaining from the nation’s self-immolation a half-century ago ours was a deeply racist, and deeply flawed, society in 1915, with another war at the heart of our national trauma. Today’s installment is about a Supreme Court decision that ought to have been a watershed civil rights moment, but became a lost opportunity for a nation still haunted by its Civil War a half-century before. ![]() This is another cross-post from the Great War Blog, a daily diary of your modern world being born in blood and fire a century ago. ![]()
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